The “recent indictment of a North Texas doctor who allegedly certified over 5,000 patients for home health in one year, far above the typical 100 per year” serves as an example of poor and fraudulent Medicare billing activity that still persists today. Senator John Cornyn speaks about Medicare and Medicaid fraud that has been causing the federal government and taxpayers problems for years. …

A month after R. Allen Stanford was found guilty of 13 counts of fraud, many Texas congress members have yet to give back campaign contributions given by Stanford. As all sides point fingers, the process of getting the funds back is prolonged for the victims. …

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who rose from an impoverished childhood in McAllen, where he once lived in old World War II barracks, to become a three-star Army general commanding multinational forces in Iraq, just filed the paperwork indicating that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.

“I believe Texas needs a strong, independent voice to address the enormous challenges we are facing,” Sanchez said, “leadership that focuses on results rather than politics.”

Ricardo Sanchez tells of growing up knowing that no one expected him to succeed. The Texas border’s system of discrimination, which forced his father to use the back door to enter a McAllen bar, also threatened to shackle future generations of Hispanics.

But as he ponders an improbable run as a Democrat for the seat held by longtime Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in one of the nation’s reddest states, Sanchez isn’t daunted.